Collar number

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A collar number, also known as a shoulder number or Force Identification Number, identifies uniformed officers, Police Community Support Officers (PCSO), and some police staff in UK police forces. Although now displayed on epaulettes (i.e. on the shoulder), it is still commonly referred to as a collar number.

In smaller forces it is simply a 1 to 4 digit number, but in larger forces a one- and two-letter code (also known as a Division Call Sign) is usually added to indicate the officer's base area or unit:

City Of London
A number followed by a single letter to indicate the division.
Suffix code Meaning
A Operational Support (Dogs, Mounted, Traffic) (formerly Moor Lane)
B Snow Hill & Wood Street
C Bishopsgate
D CID (formerly Cloak Lane)
E Headquarters
Metropolitan Police Service
A number followed by one or two letters indicating the station or unit.
Suffix code Meaning
AB Belgravia
BH Notting Hill
BS Brompton
CC Central Communications Command (now CO10)
CD West End Central
CO Central Operations (formerly Commissioner's Office)
CW City of Westminster
CX Charing Cross
D Diplomatic Protection Group
DM Marylebone
DP Paddington
EH Hampstead
EK Kentish Town
EO Holborn
FF Fulham
FH Hammersmith
GD Shoreditch and Hackney (now includes stoke newington)
GN Stoke Newington (no longer used as a prefix)
HH Limehouse
HT Whitechapel
ID Heathrow Airport (now Aviation Security (SO18))
JB Barkingside
JC Chingford
JI Ilford
JL Leyton
KD Havering
KF Forest Gate
KG Dagenham
KO Plaistow
LD Brixton
LS Streatham
LX Vauxhall
MD Southwark
MM Peckham
MS Walworth
NH Holloway
NI Islington
P Parliament (SO17)
PD Catford
PG Penge
PL Lewisham
PN Orpington
PR Bromley
QA Harrow
QD Wembley
QK Kilburn
R Royalty Protection Group
RA Plumstead
RG Greenwich
RY Bexleyheath
S  ???
SA Barnet
SX Colindale
SO Specialist Operations
SCD Specialist Crime Directorate
TW Twickenham
TX Hounslow
U Uniform (TSG)
VK Kingston-Upon-Thames
VW Merton
WA Battersea
WW Wandsworth
XB Uxbridge
XD Ealing
XH Hillingdon
XS Southall
YE Edmonton
YF Enfield
YR Hornsey
YT Tottenham
ZD Croydon
ZM Merton
ZN South Norwood
ZT Sutton

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